# List of Hotchkiss School alumni

Hotchkiss School is a private, day and boarding school in Lakeville, Connecticut. Following are some of its notable alumni. Former pupils are known as Pythians (even entrance year) or Olympians (odd entrance year).

## Academia

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Willard F. Enteman II | 1955 | Bowdoin College president |
| Arthur Lehman Goodhart | 1908 | Oxford's University College master and legal scholar |
| Alfred Whitney Griswold | 1924 | Yale University president |
| Benjamin Woods Labaree | 1945 | Williams College dean |
| Leonard Woods Labaree | 1915 | Yale history professor |
| Roger Sherman Loomis | 1905 | Columbia English professor |
| Scotty McLennan | 1966 | Stanford dean for religious life, inspiration for Doonesbury character Reverend Scot Sloan |
| Jerome J. Pollitt | 1953 | Yale art history professor |
| Walter W. Taylor | 1931 | Conjunctive archaeology founder and professor |
| Nader Tehrani | 1981 | Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union |
| Christopher Winship | 1968 | Harvard sociology professor |

## Art and architecture

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Peter Arno | 1922 | The New Yorker cartoonist |
| Thomas Hoving | 1949 | Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Gerald Clery Murphy | 1907 | Artist, socialite, CEO of Mark Cross |
| Samuel Wagstaff | 1940 | Art curator and museum director |
| Evans Woollen III | 1945 | Architect, principal and founder of Woollen, Molzan and Partners, Indianapolis |

## Business

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Jonathan Bush | 1949 | George H. W. Bush's brother and investment banker |
| William H. T. Bush | 1956 | Investment banker |
| Roy D. Chapin Jr. | 1933 | American Motors CEO |
| Granger K. Costikyan | 1925 | Armenian-American banker |
| Edsel Ford | 1958 | Ford Motor Company executive |
| Henry Ford II | 1936 | Ford Motor Company executive |
| William Clay Ford Sr. | 1943 | Ford Motor Company executive |
| William Clay Ford Jr. | 1975 | Ford Motor Company executive |
| Briton Hadden | 1915 | Time co-founder |
| Robert Lehman | 1908 | Lehman Brothers executive |
| David McCord Lippincott | 1943 | McCann Erickson creative director and copywriter |
| Henry Luce | 1916 | Time co-founder |
| Mark Mays | 1981 | Clear Channel Communications executive |
| Raymond McGuire | 1975 | Former head of Investment Banking at Citigroup |
| Forrest Mars Jr. | 1949 | Mars, Inc. executive |
| John Mars | 1953 | Mars, Inc. executive |
| Philip W. Pillsbury | 1920 | Pillsbury Company executive |
| John Shedd Reed | 1935 | Santa Fe Railway executive |
| Harold Stanley | 1904 | Morgan Stanley founder |
| John L. Thornton | 1972 | Goldman Sachs executive |
| William von Mueffling | 1986 | Cantillon Capital Management founder |

## Entertainment

| Name | Class | Notability |
| John G. Avildsen | 1955 | Film director of Rocky and The Karate Kid |
| Max Carlish | | Documentary filmmaker; recipient of a BAFTA and an International Emmy Award |
| Elizabeth Chandler | 1982 | Screenwriter of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and What A Girl Wants |
| John Crosby | 1944 | Founder and director of the Santa Fe Opera; recipient of National Medal of Arts |
| Bradford Dillman | 1947 | Film actor |
| Peter Duchin | 1954 | Leader and organizer Peter Duchin Orchestras and Duchin Entertainment |
| Frederick "Dennis" Greene | 1968 | Founder and lead singer of Sha Na Na and professor at the University of Dayton School of Law |
| John H. Hammond | 1929 | Executive and producer at Columbia Records; discovered Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen |
| Leland Hayward | 1920 | Hollywood and Broadway agent and producer |
| Peter H. Hunt | 1957 | Theater and television director, recipient of a Tony Award for the musical 1776 |
| Allison Janney | 1977 | Oscar and Emmy Award-winning actress |
| Esko Laine | 1980 | Double bass player with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Chris Meledandri | 1977 | Founder and CEO of Illumination Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Animation |
| Douglas Moore | 1911 | Pulitzer Prize-winning composer |
| Ben Mulroney | 1993 | Host of Canadian Idol |
| Scott Powell | 1966 | Member of the rock group Sha Na Na; orthopedic surgeon |
| Roswell Rudd | 1954 | Grammy-nominated jazz trombonist |
| Burr Steers | | Filmmaker and actor |
| Chris Wallace | 1963 | Broadcast journalist |
| Tom Werner | 1967 | Co-founder of Carsey-Werner Company, whose productions include That '70s Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Cosby Show |
| Thunder Keck | 2017 | WWE wrestler |

## Government and diplomacy

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Victor Ashe | 1963 | United States Ambassador to Poland |
| Malcolm Baldrige Jr. | 1940 | United States Secretary of Commerce |
| Donald B. Easum | 1942 | United States Ambassador to Nigeria and United States Assistant Secretary of State |
| G. McMurtrie Godley | 1935 | United States Ambassador to Laos and co-founder of the Glimmerglass Opera |
| Hallett Johnson | 1904 | United States Ambassador to Costa Rica |
| Winston Lord | 1955 | United States Ambassador to China |
| Livingston T. Merchant | 1922 | United States Ambassador to Canada and Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs |
| Clark T. Randt Jr. | 1964 | United States Ambassador to China |
| Strobe Talbott | 1964 | Deputy Secretary of State, journalist, diplomat, president of Brookings Institution |
| Paul Warnke | | Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs |
| Arthur K. Watson | 1938 | United States Ambassador to France |
| Charles Yost | 1956 | United States Ambassador to the United Nations; Laos, Syria, and Morocco |

## Law

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Samuel H. Blackmer | | Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court |
| Robert Bork | | United States Solicitor General, Conservative legal scholar, judge |
| Lisa Brown | 1978 | General Counsel of the United States Department of Education, staff secretary to President Barack Obama |
| Eli Whitney Debevoise | 1917 | Attorney and founder of Debevoise & Plimpton |
| Peter Hall | 1966 | Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont |
| Jon Ormond Newman | 1949 | Judge of the United States court of appeals |
| Potter Stewart | 1933 | Justice of the US Supreme Court |

## Literature and journalism

| Name | Class | Notability |
| José Camprubí | 1897 | La Prensa owner |
| Edwin Denby | 1919 | Poet and dance critic |
| Tom Dolby | 1994 | Author |
| Varian Fry | 1926 | Journalist and "the American Schindler" |
| John Hersey | 1932 | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1945 winner and Yale's Pierson College master |
| Lewis H. Lapham | 1952 | Editor of Harper's Magazine and Lapham's Quarterly |
| William Loeb | 1923 | Publisher of the Manchester Union Leader newspaper |
| Peter Matthiessen | 1945 | National Book Award winner 1979, 1980, and 2008 |
| Archibald MacLeish | 1911 | Winner of 1933 and 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| Julia Quinn | 1987 | Romantic novelist |
| Tom Reiss | 1982 | Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography |
| MacKenzie Scott | 1988 | Novelist |

## Medicine and science

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Alexandra Golby | 1985 | Neurosurgeon and professor of neurosurgery and radiology at Harvard Medical School |
| David Hawkins | 1931 | Science philosopher and Manhattan Project's official historian |
| Charles Snead Houston | 1931 | Physician and early high altitude pulmonary edema researcher |
| Dickinson W. Richards Jr. | 1913 | Nobel Prize laureate |

## Military

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Thaddeus Beal | 1935 | Under Secretary of the Army |
| Douglas Campbell | 1913 | First aviator in an American unit to achieve the status of flying ace |
| Artemus Gates | 1911 | World War I hero and Under Secretary of the Navy |
| Roswell Gilpatric | 1924 | Assistant Secretary of the Air Force and Deputy Secretary of Defense |
| Frank O'Driscoll Hunter | 1913 | Chief of the First Air Force in World War II |
| Paul Nitze | 1924 | Secretary of the Navy |
| Elliott B. Strauss | 1921 | Rear Admiral and key Allied staff officer for the Invasion of Normandy |

## Ministry

| Name | Class | Notability | References |
| Margot Käßmann | 1975 | Bishop of Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover Landesbischöfin, first chairwoman of Evangelical Church in Germany | |
| Henry Knox Sherrill | 1907 | Bishop of Massachusetts and Presiding Bishop of Episcopal Church | |

## Politics

| Name | Class | Notability |
| R. Lawrence Coughlin | 1946 | United States House of Representatives |
| Charles Edison | 1909 | Governor of New Jersey |
| Frederick Vanderbilt Field | 1923 | Political activist, staff member of Institute of Pacific Relations |
| Philip Goodhart | 1944 | British politician |
| Porter J. Goss | 1956 | United States House of Representatives and Director of the CIA |
| Ernest Gruening | 1903 | Governor of Alaska and United States Senate |
| William Kirk Kaynor | | United States House of Representatives |
| Lawrence M. Judd | 1906 | Governor of Hawaii |
| Robert D. Orr | 1936 | Governor of Indiana |
| William Warren Scranton | 1935 | Governor of Pennsylvania and United States Ambassador to the United Nations |
| Jerry Voorhis | 1919 | United States House of Representatives |

## Sports

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Edwin F. Blair | 1920 | All-American lineman for the undefeated Yale's 1923 football team |
| Caitlin Cahow | 2003 | Olympic bronze and silver medalist in hockey |
| Luke Glendening | | NHL forward |
| Stephen Greenberg | 1966 | 2nd Deputy Commissioner of Baseball |
| Matt Herr | | NHL forward |
| Fred Kammer | 1930 | Olympic bronze medalist in hockey |
| Hank Ketcham | 1910 | All-American lineman for Yale (1911–1913), inductee to the College Football Hall of Fame |
| Gina Kingsbury | 2000 | Olympic gold medalist in hockey for Canada |
| Torrey Mitchell | 2004 | NHL forward |
| Marshall Rifai | 2017 | NHL defenceman with the Toronto Maple Leafs |
| Raymond W. "Ducky" Pond | 1921 | Yale University football player and coach |
| Peter Revson | | Formula One race car driver. |
| Shavar Thomas | | Major League Soccer player for the Jamaica National Football Team |
| Fay Vincent | 1958 | 8th MLB Baseball Commissioner |